Feature Request

[Chuck Wolber]

I just tested sending a SIGUSR1 and no joy. Do you send it to one of the 
child processes instead of the parent?

-Chuck


On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, John Taylor wrote:

> 
> What about returning progress status when rsync receives a SIGUSR2?
> It looks like there is code to return some sort of status when SIGUSR1
> is sent.  Is this accurate?
> 
> -John
> 
> On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 02:54:43PM -0700, Chuck Wolber wrote:
> > 
> > Just built 2.6.1 and started testing it. Nice job guys. I especially love
> > the --progress and hardlink tweaks.
> > 
> > Quite often, while I have systems backing up out of cron, I'd love to be
> > able to see the --progress. Unfortunately, it's just not practical to
> > crank up the verbosity like that on a regular basis (some of these systems
> > have a few million files). A neat feature I'd like to see is the ability
> > to attach to a FIFO or something like that, that would (while the process
> > is running) allow me to get that information.
> > 
> > I'm sure that begs the question, why not just redirect to a file and parse
> > out what you want when the backup is done? First of all, that's sort of
> > ugly. What I have in mind is something a lot simpler. How about something
> > *ROUGHLY* analagous to this:
> > 
> > 
> > # cat /proc/$PID/prev
> > (4643, 13.2% of 1027477)
> > 
> > # cat /proc/$PID/curr
> > usr/local/rep/3ECBF9879808410/dictdb_3ECBFB89878410OX.db 
> > 
> > # cat /proc/$PID/curr_rate
> > 80703888   8%   65.37kB/s    3:51:30
> > 
> > 
> > Or even better is just to update the environment, so a simple "cat
> > /proc/$PID/environ" could let you parse out $PREV, $CURR and $CURR_RATE
> > from the environment string.
> > 
> > I'm not much of a C coder, otherwise I'd offer up a patch. Wayne *DID* ask 
> > for neato features though, so this is my 2c worth.
> > 
> > -Chuck
> > 
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